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First

If nothing comes first

—there will be a Riot of time.

Over over-

Throw

there is nothing.

A, ad-

vance, a

Threat

of dark upon

light, the very Idea

of color.

Unred

the road, its

Turn a-

Part

—its pattern

a

connective void, the

Unlikely a-

Voidance of all

rays, of all right.

So hopeless is the play of Place,

canted to one & one condition, shun.

Now to speak the spike

Into unhurt name, the

heart—

That thought of that, that

thought of thought

alone—

from The Absolute LetterFind more by Andrew Joron at the library

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Used with the permission of Flood Editions.

Published in Andrew Joron Poems

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